An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …

‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump  —  In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation …

Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing  —  The daughter of a prominent ultranationalist, herself a hawkish commentator, was killed by a car bomb deep in Russian territory.  —  A brazen car bombing in a Moscow suburb that killed the daughter of a prominent backer …

Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’  —  Former President Donald Trump's allies will eventually turn on him to avoid prison, his former attorney Michael Cohen said on Sunday.  —  Cohen's comment came nearly two weeks after FBI agents executed a search warrant …

A Russian soldier's journal: ‘I will not participate in this madness’  —  RIGA, Latvia — Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise.

POLITICO Playbook: A shifting center of attention reshapes 2022  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK —Today: U.S. and South Korea begin largest joint military exercises in half a decade (more from Reuters). ...  Tuesday: Statewide primaries in New York and Florida. ...

Kansas recount confirms landslide win for abortion rights, but highlights risk to democracy  —  Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier …

GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir  — A GOP congressman called for the release of the FBI affidavit underpinning the Mar-a-Lago raid.  — Rep. Mike Turner told CBS News on Sunday that Trump may have kept classified documents to write a memoir.

There's a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can't stand it  —  The Reproductive Freedom for All Act reveals deeper debates about post-Roe America.  —  Amid threats over the last year that the Supreme Court might abolish the right to an abortion …

Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden  —  Households have seen a stunning rise in employment and income, even considering inflation.  —  Ronald Reagan closed his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter in October 1980, urging Americans to ask themselves if they were better off than they were four years ago.

A coalition of AAPI groups says the far right is targeting its communities with disinformation  —  A first-of-its-kind study this month examines how disinformation is being used, often online, to sow discord between the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and other ethnic or racial groups.

Senate prepares to pick up the judicial-pick pace as November looms  —  With most of their biggest legislative priorities accomplished and control of the Senate a toss-up, Democrats are about to dig into territory more closely associated with the GOP: ramping up judicial confirmations.

Biden officials see a second chance to promote last year's infrastructure law with projects underway  —  Most of the money from President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure bill is being handed out this summer and fall, nearly a year after passage, just in time for a campaign season he hopes will keep his fellow Democrats in power.

Liz Cheney Says New Political Group Will Target Trump Allies  —  The representative formed the new PAC shortly after her GOP primary loss last week  —  Liz Cheney Loses Wyoming GOP Primary, Vows to Continue Fighting Trump  —  Created with sketchtool.

In the Lanternfly War, Some Take the Bug's Side  —  Even as the invasive pest spreads across 11 states and threatens agriculture, lanternflies are winning sympathizers who resist kill-on-sight orders.  —  When Lee Weiss, 31, sees a spotted lanternfly — an invasive pest so voracious …